Just over a year ago, AMP’s digital bank announcement was overshadowed by a margin crunch. Last week, it launched on time and on budget, surprising many.
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Ubank's CEO details the exhausting acquisition of 86 400, and where the neobank sits within NAB after the big bank's strategic review.
Westpac was once the most enthusiastic of the big four banks on VC. Now it is taking a more nuanced approach to the fintech sector.
Four big banks, four models of corporate venture capital. CBA's is the most tightly controlled — but in return, it promises a more efficient pathway to scale.
As the big four retreat from lending, GCI co-founder Gavin Solsky explains how money can be made by lending in places where banks won't go and when equity is too expensive.
Telstra is about halfway through transitioning its entire business around artificial intelligence, product and technology group executive Kim Krogh Andersen told Capital Brief.
Some mega caps are looking stretched but this fundie still believes one of its best performers has even further to run.
Bank M&A, a notorious destroyer of shareholder value, is again in focus due to the ANZ-Suncorp transaction. So how has the last big deal in the sector panned out?
NAB's new CEO runs its business bank. His biggest rival is at Commonwealth Bank. So what is CBA thinking? And why doesn't that include lending to startups?
There's a flood of well-intentioned investors running headlong into green investments. This London asset manager believes many of them are getting it wrong.
The VC fund, which started as an arm of the telco behemoth, has quietly become one of the most successful Australian startup investors — backing 16 unicorns since 2011.
Rebuilding a tech stack or integrating with a rival is hard enough for the major banks like Westpac and ANZ. But for smaller lenders like People First Bank, it can be a nightmare.
Digital infrastructure companies like US$77 billion giant Equinix are enjoying a bonanza thanks to AI. But boosting supply to meet demand is a struggle, and doing so in a green way is even harder.
The margins in home mortgages are tightening so banks are shifting their attention to the smaller business sector - long dominated by NAB. So what does the boss of its business bank think?
The San Francisco-based family tracker listed on the ASX in 2019. After some COVID troubles, it's thriving.
Jaya Baloo is concerned about quantum computing, cyber warfare and your office's air conditioning unit.
Australian payments lag leading markets globally. French payments giant Worldline says there are opportunities to rationalise and to scale.
The PhD in biochemistry also speaks about what she learnt from the Blue Sky collapse and what keeps her motivated to stay in the sector.
Chicago-based Ariel Investments, which manages US$15 billion, says equity valuations in markets like the Philippines and Vietnam are the lowest they've been in 30 years.
She's now a partner at one of Australia's most successful deep tech funds Main Sequence, investing in startups that want to change the world.
The future of dealmaking could be found in AI as bidder behavior, risks and likely outcomes become more transparent in the modern virtual data room.
Cloud storage may be boring but it's huge and getting bigger — and for Wasabi Technologies founder David Friend a rational step from working with Led Zeppelin and George Lucas.
In a wide-ranging interview, the Atlassian founder discusses his investments in AGL and SunCable and the problem with Australia's energy policy tribalism.
Insatiable demand for data driven in part by the boom in AI has prompted the world's second most valuable company to spend vast sums doubling capacity in Australia.
In volatile markets, Abrdn is looking well outside the box.
The quantitative futurist says accelerating technological development will materially change our lives in the not-too-distant future — for better or for worse.
Banking one in five Australians and a major force in innovation, customer-owned banks face scale challenges, particularly in the cost of regulation, says COBA CEO Michael Lawrence.
Lazard Asset Management has embedded ESG into its investment process. But it is witnessing an emerging split in the US on the issue.
CEDA's CEO Melinda Cilento shares her reflections on the Voice and what it will mean if the referendum fails.
Cheryl Mack shares what makes an investment exciting to her and how she fell into angel investing.
The sheer scale of mass data breaches are throwing up new challenges for consumer law firms.
Australia's EV market is growing fast, and so is the infrastructure surrounding it.
A quarter century after pioneering software-as-a-service, Salesforce is now betting big on AI in a bid to keep up with Microsoft and Google.
Emma Quinn, who heads up CBOE in Australia, wants to bring something different to local investors.
Morrison & Co quietly began investing in infrastructure in New Zealand in the 1980s before it was a thing. Now it has renewable portfolio companies in every continent.
Nuveen doesn't forsake ESG goals for performance, targeting a 25% return on most investments with a particular focus on inequality and climate change.
The Square Peg co-founder speaks about the pitfalls of resilience in startups and why he's excited about AI-first business models.
Maxine Minter was bemoaning the lack of pre-seed capital when she had another revelation. Australia had never had a solo female fund manager. She decided to fix both.
You can learn a lot about finance from football, GQG portfolio manager Brian Kersmanc says.
Oaktree and Spire Capital are preparing to scoop up great businesses on the cheap.
